Phillips.] 114 [May 4, 
Merrroprourran Musnwum or Art, New York City, N. Y. 
This collection (which is not large) consists of Mexican, Peruvian and 
Jentral American antiquities, and of mound-builder’s pottery, all acquired 
since 1880, and numbers about 200 pieces. It is classified geograph- 
ically. Among the noteworthy features of the collection are a remark- 
able Aztec pot and some pieces of Peruvian metal work, The Mexican 
terra-cottas are also worthy of remark. <A. catalogue is now in press in 
which the localities are given of each specimen so far as known, 
MAysvituE AND Mason County Hisrorrocan anp Scruntrrio Assocra- 
TION, Maysville, iy. 
The collections of this Society were begun in 1875, their object being to 
illustrate the various implements used by the mound-builders of the Ohio 
Valley. The specimens were mostly found within a radius of fifteen miles 
of the town. The collections are not fully catalogued and arranged, but 
among the more noteworthy are a hematite skin-dresser, one leaden 
implement, two inscribed stones, eight discoidal stones, five boat-shaped 
stone images, twenty-two stone maize-beaters, thirty-two ground: stone 
hatchets, one stone image of a sheep or Nama (head and half the body), 
ninety-two skin-dressers, sixty-two hammer-stones, six chert-choppers, 
two flint-choppers, three flint (burial) stones, seventeen slate ceremonial 
implements, two and one-half round sinkers, eleven stone sinkers, one 
stone plummet, two stone chisels, one stone roller, fifty-two flint drills, 
six hundred arrow and spear-points, eighty-seven war arrow-points, 
seventy flint knives, sixty-five scrapers, thirteen flint skin-dressers, one 
flint gouge. 
Mrnnesora Histrortoan Socrrry, St, Paul, Minn. 
The fine museum of this Society was destroyed by the fire of March 1, . 
1881, It now only possesses two stone hammers and a copper chisel. 
Mrssourr HrsroricaL Socrmry, St. Louis, Mo. 
The collections of this Society are as yet in their infancy, and not cata- 
logued and arranged. 
New Lonvon Country Hisrorroan Sacinvy, New London, Conn. 
This collection being of recent origin, has not yet been entirely arranged, 
classified, labeled, and catalogued. The specimens number about 2500, 
Tur Narionan Musnum, Washington, D. C, 
This collection was established in 1842, its possessions then consisting 
of the specimens obtained during the Wilkes’ Exploring Expedition. In 
1858 it passed into the care of the Smithsonian Institution, The general 
collection is arranged typically; special collections from mounds, shell- 
heaps, &c., are kept together. At present it contains about 20,000 chipped 
implements, arrow-heads, &c.; about 8900 hammer stones, celts, pestles, 
